A.P. Lawrence

This article is from a FAQ concerning SCO operating systems. While some of the information may be applicable to any OS, or any Unix or Linux OS, it may be specific to SCO Xenix, Open Desktop or Openserver.

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OSR5 FAQ

How can I add a formfeed or other control to jobs sent to a Visionfs printer?

Visionfs can create local printers that pass data to shared windows printers, but it's not easy to modify the interface they use.

You can do this with a virtual printer as described
at /SCOFAQ/scotec7.html

Create a printer that adds the \014 or whatever else you need, and have
it pass its output to the Visionfs created printer.

You can use the "dumb" interface to do it, wrapping part of it like this:

shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
files="$*"
i=1
# add this opening bracket
{ 
while [ $i -le $copies ]
do
        for file in $files
        do
                0<${file} eval ${FILTER} 2>&1
                echo "\014\c"
        done
        i=`expr $i + 1`
done
# add this closing bracket and the pipe to lp
} | lp -dvisionprinter